Name: Marked Present: A novel (en Inglés)
SKU: 69241644
Price: 23090.00 CLP
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Author: Collins, Cali
ISBN: 9798178789872

portada Marked Present: A novel (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Independently published

Autor

Collins, Cali

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

226

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9798178789872

Marked Present: A novel (en Inglés)

Collins, Cali (Autor) · Independently published · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Marked Present: A novel (en Inglés)"

The record said absent. Estelle Whitlow kept the front office of a Southern junior high school for thirty-one years. She knew every child's mother by name, kept a dish of safety pins by the telephone, and never let a mistake stand on paper. Then she wakes on a wooden bench in a room filled with late gold light, and nothing hurts. A fourteen-year-old girl is waiting at the other end of the bench, holding her schoolbooks against her chest. She thanks Estelle for what she did that day. Estelle cannot remember the girl, or the day. "To you, it was only Tuesday." Back on earth, Estelle's daughter Charlene is emptying her mother's house when she finds a shoebox of shorthand notebooks she cannot read. One page is pressed so hard the writing came through three sheets of paper. And in a stranger's keepsakes, on a copy of an old attendance sheet, two small initials sit beside a time that changed one record forever. As Estelle is forced to face what she saw, what she wrote down, and what she allowed others to decide, Charlene begins uncovering a harder truth: her mother once stood up for one frightened girl while failing to hear her own daughter. Marked Present is a novel about mothers and daughters, memory, accountability, and the difference between hearing someone and helping them.